Job 2
1 Un día los seres celestiales vinieron a presentarse ante el Señor, y Satanás vino con ellos a presentarse al Señor.
Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.
2 El Señor le preguntó a Satanás: “¿Qué has estado haciendo?” “Viajando por la tierra, yendo de aquí para allá”, respondió Satanás.
Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
3 “¿Te has fijado en mi siervo Job?”, le preguntó el Señor. “No hay nadie como él en la tierra, un hombre íntegro que hace lo correcto, que respeta a Dios y evita el mal. Y él ha mantenido su integridad, aunque tú querías que lo perjudicara sin motivo”.
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
4 “¡Piel por piel!” Satanás replicó. “Un hombre renunciará a todo para salvar su vida.
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
5 Pero extiende tu mano y hiere sus huesos y su carne, y verás que definitivamente te maldecirá en tu cara”.
But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
6 Entonces el Señor le dijo a Satanás: “Muy bien, tienes el poder de hacerle lo que quieras, pero no lo mates”.
Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
7 Entonces Satanás salió de la presencia del Señor y le infligió a Job unas horribles llagas en la piel desde la planta de los pies hasta la parte superior de la cabeza.
So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
8 Job tomó un trozo de cerámica rota para rascarse mientras estaba sentado en las cenizas.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
9 Su mujer le dijo: “¿Aún te aferras a tu integridad? Maldice a Dios y muérete”.
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
10 Pero él le dijo: “¡Hablas como lo haría cualquier mujer insensata! ¿Debemos recibir sólo el bien de Dios, y no el mal?” A pesar de todo esto, Job no dijo nada pecaminoso.
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
11 Cuando tres de los amigos de Job se enteraron de todos los problemas que le habían ocurrido, cada uno de ellos salió de su casa: Elifaz el temanita, Bildad el suhita y Zofar el naamatita. Se reunieron y fueron a confortarlo y consolarlo.
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
12 Cuando vieron a Job de lejos, apenas lo reconocieron. Prorrumpieron en fuertes lamentos, se rasgaron las vestiduras y arrojaron polvo al aire sobre sus cabezas.
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
13 Se sentaron en el suelo con él durante siete días y siete noches. Ninguno de ellos le dijo nada porque veían lo mucho que sufría.
So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
